[Osx-nutters] Are you safer?

[Chuck Bennett]

On Oct 11, 2006, at 11:53 PM, Chris Gehlker wrote:

> Just t follow up on a previous thread, I thought I'd post some  
> readily available statistics for 2001, the peak year for Islamic  
> terrorist activity on US soil.
>
>
> US Deaths 2001				Number			Percent
> All Causes					2,416,425		100.0%
> Accidents					101,537			4.2%
> Suicide						30,622			1.3%
> Homicide					20,308			0.8%
> Incidents Involving Firearms	29,000			1.2%
> Motor Vehicle Crashes		26,347			1.1%
> Islamic Terrorists				2,973			0.1%
>
>
> The statistics are from the CDC, Wikipedia and  some anti drug war  
> site. The categories  clearly are not mutually  exclusive.  
> Nevertheless, I think they show that discussions about the safety  
> of US citizens on US soil from acts of  terrorism  are really about  
> something else. People who were really concerned about safety would  
> be better off focusing their energy on gun control. Somehow, I  
> don't think that's going to happen.


Man, if we could just get Palestine to do that..   I have an odd  
feeling that their per-capita gun violence problem dwarfs the US.

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